The essential postulates of classical thermodynamics are formulated, from which the second
law is deduced as the principle of increase of entropy in irreversible adiabatic processes that …

The main purpose of this chapter is to give a derivation, which is mathematically precise,
physically natural, and conceptually simple, of the quasilinear system of partial differential …

Am 25. Januar 2014, zwei Jahre nach Erscheinen der 15. Auflage, verstarb der Urheber und
langjährige Alleinautor dieses Lehrbuchs, Hans-Dieter Baehr, im Alter von 85 Jahren. Herr …

Surface thermodynamics forms the foundation of any meaningful study of capillarity and
wetting phenomena. This second edition offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art treatment of …

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a developing technology attracting attention from the
industry and the academia. Hundreds of millions of vehicles are projected to be connected …

In days long gone, the second law of thermodynamics (which predated the first law) was
regarded as perhaps the most perfect and unassailable law in physics. It was even …

Economic activity can be regarded as an evolutionary process governed by the 2nd law of
thermodynamics. The universal law, when formulated locally as an equation of motion …

This paper is devoted to restrictions imposed by a work property of Drucker-Iliushin's type on
the general class of mechanical systems with an elastic range which contains plastic …

A SURVEY OF ENTROPY METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS He began
then, bewilderingly, to talk about something called entr Page 1 BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE …

We consider damped stochastic systems in a controlled (time varying) potential and study
their transition between specified Gibbs-equilibria states in finite time. By the second law of …